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Remember Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old man from Cuba, who died in ICE custody on January 3rd, 2026. His cause of death was reported by ICE as “medical distress and under investigation”. Witnesses saw guards hold down and strangle Geraldo. The county medical examiner determined cause of death to be “asphyxia due to neck and torso compression”, and ruled his death as a homicide.

Remember Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres, a 42-year-old man from Honduras, who died in ICE custody on January 5th, 2026. His cause of death was reported by ICE as “complications related to congenital heart failure”.

Remember Luis Beltrán Yanez-Cruz, a 68-year-old man from Honduras, who died in ICE custody on January 6th, 2026. His cause of death was reported by ICE as “heart-related health issues.”

Remember Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by ICE on January 7th, 2026.

Remember Parady La, a 46-year-old man from Cambodia, who died in ICE custody on January 9th, 2026. His cause of death was reported by ICE as “anoxic brain injury, post cardiac arrest, shock and multiple organ failures following severe drug withdrawal”.

Remember Víctor Manuel Díaz, a 36-year-old man from Nicaragua, who died in ICE custody on January 14th, 2026. His cause of death was reported by ICE as “a presumed suicide; however, the official cause of his death remains under investigation.”

Remember Heber Sánchez-Domínguez, a 34-year-old man from Mexico, who died in ICE custody on January 14th, 2026. His cause of death is “currently under investigation” according to ICE.

Remember Wael Tarabishi, whose health declined and ultimately led to his death on January 23rd, 2026 after his father and primary caregiver, Maher Tarabishi, was taken by ICE. The Tarabishi family are once again asking for Maher’s release, this time so he can attend his son’s funeral.

Remember Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by Border Patrol on January 24th.

Additional sources:

ICE website (filter to detainee death notifications)

Wikipedia: List of Deaths in ICE Detention

2025:

The Guardian: “2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody.”

Previous post on ICE-related deaths in 2025

This post is a list of ICE-related deaths in 2026. It has been edited to include Keith Porter since he was killed just hours before the new year, and Wael Tarabishi.

This post was last updated January 28th, 2026.

New York Times [no paywall version]:

...What is the value of a human life? Under both Democratic and Republican administrations, the answer has been in the millions of dollars. The higher the value, the more the government has required businesses to spend on their operations to prevent a single death. But for the first time ever, at the Environmental Protection Agency the answer is effectively zero dollars. Last week, the E.P.A. stopped estimating the monetary value of lives saved when setting limits on two of the most widespread deadly air pollutants, fine particulate matter and ozone. Instead, the agency is calculating only the costs to companies of complying with pollution regulations. “The Trump administration is saying, literally, that they put zero value on human life,” Marshall Burke, an environmental economist at Stanford University, said in an email. “If your kid breathes in air pollution from a power plant or industrial source, E.P.A. is saying that they care only insofar as cleaning up that pollution would cost the emitter.” ...[the change] appears to shelve a powerful tool, known as the value of a statistical life, that agencies have used for decades in the cost-benefit analyses that justify new regulations.

To estimate the effects of a policy, analysts conduct a cost-benefit analysis, a model used to weigh the policy's pros and cons against one another. In order to do that, you have to have an estimate of how much a human life is worth.

Many people object to this morally under the premise that human life is infinitely valuable, but that's an unworkable assumption. If every life is worth infinite dollars, then the appropriate maximum speed limit for drivers would be zero. Every unit you raise the speed limit by trades the additional benefits of driving that fast (mobility, economic value, reduced time costs) against the additional costs of the lives lost by new auto accidents. If the value of a human life is truly infinite, then it would be unacceptable to allow any road deaths, meaning that driving should be illegal at any speed. A society which does not allow for any risk of human death is one which cannot reasonably function.

We already make implicit assumptions about the value of human life when discussing our policy preferences, we just keep this value vague and undefined in our heads rather than setting an actual dollar amount out loud. The Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) is a concept that turns our implicit assumptions explicit, attaching a specific dollar value to a life to allow for the calculation of cost-benefit analyses.

The higher you set the VSL, the more likely it is to suggest that regulations are worthwhile. The costs of a safety rule might outweigh the benefits when you assume a VSL of $1 million, while the opposite would be true if you had a VSL of $5 million.

For this reason, the exact benchmark for the VSL is highly contested. In fact, different government agencies often adopt different standards in different contexts. The HHS guidelines from 2024 provide a range of VSL values from $6.1 million to $19.9 million for that year.

The EPA formerly valued a statistical human life at about $11.7 million. Under this estimate, clean air regulations have benefits that massively outweigh their costs (NYT offers a ratio of about 30-1). But by setting the VSL to $0, practically all life-saving government regulations at the EPA are now unjustifiable. By taking the largest benefits out of the equation and counting only costs, virtually all regulations will appear inefficient. It doesn't matter if a rule costs businesses only $1 to save 100 lives, that $1 in costs will be enough to reject the rule (unless other benefits are sufficiently large).

They're doing something similar with another concept called the "social cost of carbon;" by ignoring it, they can make pollution appear harmless on paper even as it remains destructive in real life.

They come in pairs, never one person though one may hag back a bit. They have been seen using cars with significantly tinted windows, no business logos anywhere on the vehicle, or parking close to the home they walked up to only to drive away right after without visiting other homes, almost as if they’re not real sales people.

True door to door salespeople need a sort of peddler’s license, subject to city and county law, to solicit at your door. You can ask to see this permit. If they don’t provide one or make an excuse, they are likely bogus.

They wear a jacket with a company logo but likely don’t wear name tags and the Don’t provide id.

Tell them you’ll call the company about a noncompliant representative. Make them leave. Better yet not to open the door to them, and tell them nothing.

There’s a reason that the Right have all rallied so quickly behind this narrative: it’s happened before, with ICE’s approval.

Renee is the ninth person to have been shot by ICE since last September; and in all of those shootings the victim was in a vehicle and the agents claimed that the vehicle was “a threat”/trying to “run them down.” One other shooting, that of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, was also lethal.

This is pretty clearly a sanctioned tactic being used by ICE repeatedly with an eye towards using the vehicle-as-weapon excuse later.

The Venezuelan opposition, despite its many promises of being ready to step in and set up an alternative government should Maduro fall, has always been deeply divided. The nation's opposition movement contains many groups who disagree about basically everything except opposition to the current government. Unsurprisingly, the US government has cultivated close ties with the most internationally-connected parts of the movement's neoliberal right-wing.

The most prominent opposition member at the moment is a member of this neoliberal right wing: María Corina Machado, the recent winner of a Nobel Peace Prize despite her advocacy for violent military action against her home country. Machado fled Venezuela in December and is now believed to be somewhere in Europe, and she has celebrated Maduro's ouster this morning.

Unless they have someone else up their sleeve, Machado is most likely the US government's preferred replacement for Maduro. She has spent months promising that she would "privatize all our industry" and that US businesses would "make a lot of money." In November, she released a "Freedom Manifesto" promising "a free marketplace of ideas and enterprise," a government that does not "[exert] a heavy hand on the marketplace," and to "reeestablish alliances" in the western hemisphere.

immediately started seeing these kind of takes on twitter and I know they will reach here and you have to understand this isn't happening because the US is the country of cartoon villains who does things because it's evil. It's imperialism. The US has an empire and it wants to keep it and extend it. When it does not use diplomatic and political means it uses financial and economic control, when that does not work it tries to use intelligence operations and when that does not work it uses military action. Venezuela has gone and suffered through all the stages of this and now it's being struck with direct military action.

And again, the reason why the US does all this is not because "thirst for blood and chaos", it's because it's an empire. It wants the natural resources of Venezuela. It wants to keep its imperial dominion over Latin America, it wants to erase potential rivals on the region and keep it under their control. They have said it so. Explicitly.

Whistleblower on Reddit rage-blogs about how the food delivery company he worked for as a developer is ripping customers AND drivers off.

Main post screenshotted here in case it gets yanked; the whole thread is worth a read.